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- the present invention is directed, in general, to control systems for process facilities and, more specifically, to controllers that determine optimal proportional integral and derivative (“PID") tuning parameters for use in process control systems to globally optimize process facilities.
- PID proportional integral and derivative
- process facilities e.g., a manufacturing plant, a mineral or crude oil refinery, etc.
- Contemporary control systems include numerous modules tailored to control or monitor various associated processes of the facility. Conventional means link these modules together to produce the distributed nature of the control system. This affords increased performance and a capability to expand or reduce the control system to satisfy changing facility needs.
- Process facility management providers such as HONEYWELL, INC., develop control systems that can be tailored to satisfy wide ranges of process requirements (e.g., global, local or otherwise) and facility types (e.g., manufacturing, refining, etc.).
- a primary objective of such providers is to centralize control of as many processes as possible to improve an overall efficiency of the facility.
- Each process, or group of associated processes has certain input (e.g., flow, feed, power, etc.) and output (e.g., temperature, pressure, etc.) characteristics associated with it.
- model predictive control MPC
- One technique uses algorithmic representations to estimate characteristic values (represented as parameters, variables, etc.) associated with them that can be used to better control such processes.
- characteristic values represented as parameters, variables, etc.
- physical, economic and other factors have been incorporated into control systems for these associated processes. Examples of such techniques are described in United States Patent No. 5,351,184 entitled “METHOD OF MULTIVARIABLE
- one problem is that conventional efforts, when applied to specific processes, tend to be non-cooperative (e.g., non-global, non-facility wide, etc.) and may, and all too often do, detrimentally impact the efficiency of the process facility as a whole.
- many MPC techniques control process variables to predetermined set points. Oftentimes the set points are a best estimate of a value of the set point or set points. When a process is being controlled to a set point, the controller may not be able to achieve the best control performances, especially under process/model mismatch.
- Patent for example, teaches methods of designing a controller utilizing range control.
- the controller is designed to control a "worst case” process.
- An optimal controller for the process is achieved and, if the actual process is not a "worst case process," the performance of the controller is better than anticipated.
- PLD PLD "tuning" formulas, or techniques, and the most common, or basic, PLD algorithm includes three known user specified tuning parameters (K, T ⁇ , Tj) whose values determine how the controller will behave. These parameters are determined either by trial and error or through approaches that require knowledge of the process.
- PLD controller performance tuned by such algorithms usually degrades as process conditions change, requiring a process engineer to monitor controller performance. If controller performance deteriorates, the process engineer is required to "re-tune" the controller.
- PLD controller performance deteriorates for many reasons, although the most common cause is changing dynamics of the process. Since PLD controller performance has been related to the accuracy of the process model chosen, a need exists for a PID controller that allows for such uncertainty by accounting for changing system dynamics and, desirably, by incorporating the same before any tuning parameters are calculated. A further need exists for a means to extend the above-described MPC techniques into PLD controller design techniques.
- the present invention provides a process control system and a method of operating the same for controlling associated processes within a process facility.
- the control system includes at least one RPID controller that is associated with a processing system.
- the controller includes a storage device and a processor.
- the storage device is operable to represent (i) at least one of a plurality of associated processes mathematically to define the various relationships among different inputs and outputs of the one or more represented associated processes, and (ii) uncertainty factors that are associated with these defined relationships.
- the uncertainty factors define a range of dynamics across which the one or more represented associated processes operate, an error in the mathematical representation, or, alternatively, some combination of the same.
- the processor is capable of determining (or is operable to) tuning parameters for use by the control system to control the one or more represented associated processes and thereby cooperate to optimize said process facility.
- a robust PLD processing system determines the optimal controller tuning for the specified range of process dynamics. It is well known that process dynamics move within a range for a variety of reasons. For instance, the following list provides common plant occurrences that may change the way a process will respond to PLD control: (i) process throughput is increased or decreased, (ii) feed stock quality is changed, (iii) seasonal temperature changes, and (iv) equipment becomes fouled. In each case, an RPID controller according to the present invention outperforms a conventionally tuned PLD controller as the process dynamics shift, thus yielding increased economic benefits. As introduced above, other controller tuning techniques commonly base PLD tuning parameter results on a single process dynamic model.
- controllers may be implemented in hardware, software, or firmware, or some suitable combination of the same; in general, the use of computing systems in control systems for process facilities is well known.
- the phrase "associated with” and derivatives thereof, as used herein, may mean to include, be included within, interconnect with, contain, be contained within, connect to or with, couple to or with, be communicable with, cooperate with, interleave, be a property of, be bound to or with, have, have a property of, or the like.
- FIGURE la illustrates a block diagram of a process control system according to the principles of the present invention
- FIGURE lb illustrates a block diagram of a suitable processing system in accordance with the principles of the present invention
- FIGURE 2 illustrates a two-dimensional graphical model of process response curves for a fractionation unit during a summer and a winter seasons
- FIGURE 3 illustrates a two-dimensional graphical model of a nominal model of the process response curves for the fractionation unit during the summer and the winter seasons;
- FIGURE 4 illustrates a two-dimensional graphical model of a nominal controller design based upon the nominal model of the process response curves for the fractionation unit of FIGURE 3;
- FIGURE 5 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of the nominal controller of FIGURE 4 factoring to certain "uncertainties" factors;
- FIGURE 6 illustrates a two-dimensional graphical model of a robust PLD controller design based upon the principles of the present invention.
- Exemplary control system 100 includes a controller 105 and a process 110.
- Exemplary controller 105 is a robust PLD ("RPLD") controller according to the present invention and is operable to provide reliable control performance, particularly when process 110 conditions vary or errors occur therewith.
- Exemplary process 110 may suitably include a plurality of "controllable" elements (e.g., valves, heaters, etc.) possibly specified in the form of a model (e.g., Laplace, ARX, FLR, Step-Response, etc.).
- a model e.g., Laplace, ARX, FLR, Step-Response, etc.
- such a model can either be based on gathered data or data that is manually entered, or, alternatively, some suitable combination of the same.
- process control system 100 illustratively includes a RPLD controller loop and a first order lag.
- RPLD controller loop RPLD controller loop
- first order lag the phrases “robust,” “robustness,” and derivatives thereof are defined broadly as the ability of control system 100 to operate consistently under a variety of operating conditions.
- Exemplary process variables, "/', include temperature, pressure, level, flow, and the like.
- Exemplary input variables, or manipulated variables, "u”, and exemplary output variables, or controlled variables, ("cv,” e.g., regulated, restrained, optimized, etc.) are defined in the '420 Patent and make process 110 a dynamic process, having both manipulated variables and controlled variables.
- process control system 100 controls associated processes (e.g. , process 110) of a process facility using a plurality of optimal tuning variables.
- tuning variables are advantageously generated using a processing system (i.e., defined broadly as any system or device whether based upon hardware, firmware, software, or some suitable combination of the same; an processing system 115 is illustrated in FIGURE lb and illustratively includes a memory, or other conventional storage device, 120 and a processor, or other conventional processing circuitry, 130), which may be associated with controller 105 or, alternatively, independent of the same (for the purposes hereof, it is assumed that the processing system is integrated with controller 105).
- the controller 105 operates to determine, or calculate, one or more optimal PLD tuning parameters based on engineering inputs.
- the determined tuning parameters are then integrated into process control system 100 via controller 105, which becomes a RPID controller through the tuning parameters.
- controller 105 represents one or more of the associated processes mathematically, preferably within a memory associated therewith.
- the mathematical representation defines relationships among various inputs and outputs of the one or more associated processes.
- Controller 105 also represents one or more uncertainty factors, again, preferably within the memory.
- the uncertainty factors are associated with the defined relationships, and define (i) a range of dynamics across which the one or more associated processes operate, (ii) an error in the mathematical representation, or (iii) some suitable combination of the same.
- Controller 105 in response to, or as a function of, the mathematical representation and the uncertainty factors, determine one or more tuning parameters for use by control system 100 to control the one or more associated processes.
- the objective function, or performance criteria, "/' is used to represent either process dynamic ranges or modeling errors, or, alternatively, some combination thereof:
- RPLD controller 105 When properly used, RPLD controller 105 is capable of providing consistent control performance over the range of identified process dynamics. The net result is improved regulatory control and, hence, values of RPID controller 105 constants are constrained to be within certain ranges. Exemplary tuning parameters, and their respective ranges, are:
- ⁇ c the "proportional constant,” is displayed during the calculation search is scaled but final value is unconstrained value; controller gain has no effective limits.
- T,- the "integral constant,” terms are limited to positive values, a small value must be larger than zero (relatively smaller values imply relatively larger integration rates) while a large value (implies relatively no integral action) is arbitrarily set to l.e30.
- values (which represent the discrete time filter coefficients) may be limited between -1 and +1, inclusive.
- Model(p) the "model parameter,” may either be based on gathered data or data that is manually entered, or, alternatively, some suitable combination of the same, and may take a model form such as Laplace, ARX, FLR, Step-Response, or the like.
- RPLD controller 105 is a PLD controller tuned to operate over a range of dynamics; it does not provide improved control for all dynamics.
- RPLD controller 105 may advantageously be used wherever improved PLD control has the potential to increase process yield, improve product quality, reduce equipment maintenance, minimize safety hazards, or the like.
- the principles of the present invention operate to generate a PLD controller that is best suited to control a process over a range of identified dynamics. For instance, RPLD is well-suited to tune loops beneath a multi-variable predictive controller, as RPID controllers tend to maximize closed loop performance consistency.
- FIGURES 2 through 6 refers concurrently to FIGURE la and is provided to aspects and advantages of exemplary RPLD controller 105, particularly as the same relates to the determination of optimal tuning parameters.
- contemporary PID controllers are tuned by process model-based techniques.
- an engineer obtains information concerning process response to specific variable change. This information is used to form empirical models that are used to design a control system and, in particular, an associated controller.
- a drawback is that there is a realistic limit to the amount of information the engineer can acquire concerning the process.
- a given process may change over time and thereby reducing model accuracy. This leads to inherent uncertainty in the design of the controller.
- FIGURES 2 to 6 illustrate an example of the same along with an exemplary implementation of RPID controller 105 that illustrates improvements over contemporary implementations.
- FIGURE 2 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of process response curves for a fractionation unit during a summer and a winter seasons.
- process model based techniques When using these techniques, an engineer must obtain knowledge about how a given process responds to a specified variable change. This knowledge is then used to formulate empirical models that are used to design the control system. Unfortunately, there is always a limit to the amount of knowledge one can acquire about a process and, therefore, there is always an inherent uncertainty with regard to the final controller design. The following example will illustrate this point.
- FIGURE 3 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of a nominal model of the process response curves for the fractionation unit during the summer and the winter seasons.
- the nominal model provides a "best" guess of the actual process model under the given circumstances.
- the nominal PID controller design which is based on the nominal model, may be adjusted to "speed up” or “slow down” process control performance.
- "t 0 ⁇ ” represents an open-loop time constant
- t c ⁇ represents the closed-loop time constant.
- FIGURE 4 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of a nominal controller design based upon the nominal model of the process response curves for the fractionation unit of FIGURE 3.
- This exemplary design may be tuned to be as “fast” or as “slow” as is required. So far, the engineer has done nothing that seems intuitively “wrong,” however, there is a subtle problem — the engineer assumed the process models were correct, or accurate, and this is usually not the case. In point of fact, most identified process models are actually inaccurate by 20 to 40%. Model uncertainties of this magnitude often cause problems in nominal controller designs — when model mismatch occurs, nominal PID controller designs may yield undesirable results.
- FIGURE 5 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of the nominal controller of FIGURE 4 factoring in certain "uncertainties”. This graph illustrates an increase in oscillatory behavior as model mismatch (20-40% uncertainty) is introduced into the control system.
- FIGURE 6 illustrated is a two-dimensional graphical model of a
- the graph illustrates controller design that is insensitive to model mismatch, found using robust design techniques that minimize the bandwidth of the nominal PID controller design to yield a continuum of good performance across the expected dynamic range.
- processing system 115 uses integral squared error and a weighted two norm movement penalty as its control performance criteria to find an optimal PLD controller design
- the design process begins with the standard PID controller loop and an optimal first order lag.
- the first step in the robust design process is to specify the identified process model in the form of a mathematical representation, such as Laplace model of (p).
- the mathematical representation may be either based on data or manually entered. Uncertainty factors are also represented and used to represent either process dynamic ranges or modeling errors.
- Processing system 115 calculates optimal tuning coefficients (Kc, tj, j, tf) through the use of the proprietary min-max algorithm disclosed in the '420 Patent, namely, the proprietary "min-max" formula described therein.
- the algorithm operates on a number of different conventional PID equation forms and essentially calculates tuning coefficients that yield the best control performance for the worst case process dynamics.
- An important aspect of the present invention is that processing system not directed at deriving optimal performance from RPID controller 105 in the worst case, but, rather, to have a net effect of improving the overall controller performance within the specified dynamic range, thereby causing RPLD controller 105 to be relatively stable and increasingly insensitive to modeling errors.
- a process control system which includes at least one manipulated variable and at least one controlled variable, provides a method for robust control of a process. Predetermined constraints of the manipulated variables and the controlled variables, and the present values of the manipulated variables are obtained.
- the controller is loaded with parameters which define an optimal controller, the parameters being calculated off-line.
- To determine the parameters a single min-max statement may be defined for a worst case model of the process which operates in conjunction with a best case controller.
- the single min-max statement is converted to a corresponding canonical expression the form of a mimmization problem, the resultant solution of the minimization problem being the parameter.
- New values are calculated for the controlled variable for a predetermined number of points in the future, such that the values of the controlled variables are within the predetermined range thereby obtaining an optimal robustness of the resultant controller.
- the manipulated variables may also be calculated to be within predetermined constraints, and the controlled variables to fall within a predetermined range when controllable. From a plurality of solutions, a most robust solution is selected. Then the manipulated variables are adjusted to cause the process control system to drive the values of the controlled variables to the calculated values.
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